Kids back to school today after holiday weekend! Started the day off with my usual egg scramble minus bacon (had a couple slices of beef jerky and a few macadamias instead to up the protien and fat). I love eggs..what can I say. I will TRY to post some more interesting breakfasts (but if it ain't broke..don't fix it, right?).
Then at 9:00am I started my magic that will become dinner. I love love love the slow cooker and it's so easy. I remember the first time I made this recipe in front of my huband, he was like "That's it?". I should have continued making this dish in secret to maintain his image of me slaving away to prepare it. So, here's the beginning:
After setting dinner going in the slow cooker and dropping the kids at school, I headed over to Crossfit Burn to do some weighted pull ups and front squats. I had a snack there of a hard boiled egg, a couple pieces of beef jerky and a tangerine. After kicking around there way too long as usual, I ran home to have 4 oz of turkey, an apple and some almond butter. I guess 2 big snacks = lunch...it happens sometimes. After going to get fingerprinted (no..it wasn't accompanied by a mug shot), I ran back to Crossfit Burn to do a met-con of pull-ups, sumos and thrusters! Fun....
I attended a nutrition seminar tonight given by my friend., Nathan Brammeier, from Crossfit Adventure. I will post more about that tomorrow! During that I had a snack of 2 oz of rotisserie chicken, a serving of walnuts and a small tangerine (but my nuts hadn't been soaked...haha...more on that another day).
Then I came home to find this delicious pork butt waiting, which I proceeded to attack with two forks and turn into this:
Then I got some romaine leaves (Whole Foods was out of butter lettuce) and stuffed them with this yummy protein, and topped those with some different peppers and fresh tomatoes. I put avocado on my husband's for his healthy fat (I'm allergic...sad face...so I had some almond butter for dessert).
That's it...off to bed by 10:00ish, because Nathan said my body physically repairs itself from 10pm - 2am...which will be good after 3 workouts today. But I'm really looking forward to the psychological repair that apparently goes on from 2am - 6am (we all know I need more of that kind of repair). Goodnight!
Pork "Carnitas" Recipe (adapted from allrecipes.com):
2 teaspoons salt (I used sea salt)
2 teaspoons garlic powder2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon crumbled dried oregano
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (4 pound) boneless pork shoulder roast well trimmed of fat
2 bay leaves
2 cups chicken broth
1. Mix together salt, garlic powder, cumin, oregano, coriander, and cinnamon in a bowl. Coat pork with the spice mixture. Place the bay leaves in the bottom of a slow cooker and place the pork on top. Pour the chicken broth around the sides of the pork, being careful not to rinse off the spice mixture.
2. Cover and cook on Low until the pork shreds easily with a fork, about 10 hours. Turn the meat after it has cooked for 5 hours. When the pork is tender, remove from slow cooker, and shred with two forks. Use cooking liquid as needed to moisten the meat.
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